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below tubercles reduced to a small spot, and a small spot 

 behind tubercles, and the scutellum without a dark line; 

 abdomen black, with two red spots on first segment, a trans- 

 verse yellow mark on each side of second, and two large 

 transverse marks on third in the subdorsal region ; legs 

 coloured as in the male. g m 



Hab Mackay, Queensland {Turner). British Museum. 

 The male is no. 695, Feb. 1892; the female no. 404, 

 May 1900. 



Prosopis serotbiella (Ckll.). 

 I am indebted to Mr. R. E. Turner for three females from 

 Mackay, two from flowers of Cassia, Dec. 1899, one from 

 Euqenia, Nov. 1899. In the original type of Prosopisteron 

 serolinellum it appeared that the stigma was enormously 

 enlarged, invading the whole of the marginal cell ; but the 

 new specimens clearly show that this was merely due to 

 extreme infuscation, as the stigma can be seen with its usual 

 boundary, the marginal cell beyond in the Cassia specimens 

 being very distinctly paler. The mouth-parts are those of 

 Prosopis ; the maxillary blade is very broad, broadly rounded 

 apically, with many bristles, not suddenly narrowed in the 

 apical region as it is in the European P. con/usa. (Ihe 

 American P. asinina is intermediate between P. serotinella 

 and P. confusa in regard to the maxillary blade.) 



The name Prosopisteron cannot have more than subgeneric 

 or sectional value. 



Prosopis chrysaspis, Ckll., var. a. 



5 , — Flagellum dark ; nervures and stigma piceous. 

 J Jab. Victoria ( C. F.) . Turner Collection, British Museum. 



Prosopis nubilosa, Smith. 

 Victoria (C. F.). Turner Collection, British Museum. 



Prosopis nubilosa subnubilosa, subsp. n. 

 $ .—Lateral face-marks broader, touching supraclypeal 

 area ; no distinct dark cloud in apical region of wing ; first 

 r n. entering extreme base of second s.m. 

 ' Hab. Mackay, May 1900 (Turner, 271). 



Prosopis eugeniella, sp. n. 



? . — Length 3^-4 mm. 

 Black, very minutely punctured, with the following parts 



